It supports ARM; and a bunch of ARM-based netbooks are due out soon. They are cheaper and much more power efficient than intel's Atom etc. And Windows doesn't run on them (yet).
I'm not a big linux vs. windows or ARM vs. intel fanatic, but I'm excited at what seems to be a disruptive inflection point coming up in the next year or so...
I have an Eee 1000 which had a 40gb SSD - there are two reasons that you can't get that today.
- SSD prices have gone up.
- You can't put the cheap version of Windows on a device with a large SSD, so in the interest of rationalising product lines you can only get small SSDs or hard disks.
If Windows can't be put on the device then at least the second pressure won't exist.
There isn't proper quoting on HN, but three popular conventions are:
1. italics - to this with asterisks ( * ). To operate, they must be adjacent to the text that is being quoted, and end up looking like this. If not adjacent, you get * this *
2. Use ">" and indentation, like in email.
3. use quotes - like you did.
nb: there is help page available for the above syntax: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
It used to be available as a link next to the textarea when you comment,
but I just checked and it appears to be gone.
You might want to check out the FAQ in general if you're new (read: I strongly suggest you check out the FAQ): http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (there's a link to it at the bottom of the frontpage; I'm being extra helpful by repeating it here)
Presumably Microsoft won't allow it. To make Windows competitive they have a discount for OEMs to install Windows on machines with low spec, and presumably this SSD is too large to be able to take advantage of that.
Me too. So many netbooks are coming out now that don't even work with Linux properly now like the Samsung ones and Ubuntu 9.04 even was broken with WPA Wireless on the EeePC 901. Also Dell only offer Linux on the very lowest model in their netbook range.
Sadly I've yet to see an ARM system with a Linux friendly graphics system. They all seem to use PowerVR stuff, which is the sames stuff that Intel used to stuff up their previously unblemished graphics suppor on Linux.
Some of the ARM Cortex-A8 systems look pretty sweet. The OMAP3 series come with a fast-enough processor, a lot of IO controllers, H.264 hardware, crypto hardware, a DSP, and a graphics accelerator, all on a single die. All of it very power-efficient, and fairly cheap.
I'm not a big linux vs. windows or ARM vs. intel fanatic, but I'm excited at what seems to be a disruptive inflection point coming up in the next year or so...